La banalité de l'échange. Entretien avec Paola Tabet by Mathieu Trachman

“…In this interview, the anthropologist reflects upon her theoretical and personal development and the process that led her to construct the concept of sexual-economic exchange. …”
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Autour des critiques du concept de sexe. Entretien avec Anne Fausto-Sterling by Anne Fausto-Sterling, Priscille Touraille

“…This text is a dialogue between Anne Fausto-Sterling, Professor Emerita of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University, and Priscille Touraille, anthropologist at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in the department of eco-anthropology and ethnology of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. …”
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Language documentation and revitalization among the Siona of the Putumayo, Colombia: the potential of digitization for the social life of ethnographic material by Esther Jean Langdon

“…Finally, the paper examines the differences between indigenous expectations of audio recordings and those of the anthropologist, indicating that digitization fixes, decontextualizes and recontextualizes oral literature within the current political context in which indigenous peoples seek to identify cultural patrimony in defense of their rights.…”
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In conversation: photographic curatorship and photographic cultures in museums and research institutions by Elizabeth Edwards, Costanza Caraffa, Ruth Quinn

“…As a historical and visual anthropologist, and former Curator of Photographs at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Professor Elizabeth Edwards has transformed perceptions of photographs as material objects. …”
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Oltre l’intenzione. Etnografia urbana, lavoro sul campo e progettazione territoriale by Paolo Grassi

“…The relationship established by ethnography develops a bond between anthropologists and interlocutors capable, under certain circumstances, of producing change. …”
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The Pala’wan Highlanders and the World they live in: “A Weaving of Golden Threads” by Nicole Revel

“…Nicole Revel, Emeritus senior researcher at CNRS, Doctor Honoris causa (Humanities) Ateneo de Manila University, Linguist and anthropologist, works since 1970 in the Philippines. In collaboration with the Palawan Highlanders she described their language (1979) and their knowledge about Nature (1990-92). …”
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« Jules Crevaux, l’explorateur aux pieds nus ». Un mythe géographique amazonien by Emmanuel Lézy

“…This structures give an unexpected confirmation of the efficiency of the anthropologist’s analyses.…”
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Éléments d’une anthropologie du voyage Lévi-Strauss et Hérodote by Pascal Payen

“…Lévi-Strauss’s brief paper, « Herodotus in the sea of China » (1987), reveals, though it seems only a mere note, the extent of the anthropologist’s debt towards his Hellenic predecessor.…”
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La santé sexuelle et reproductive en Tunisie. Institutions médicales, lois et itinéraires thérapeutiques des femmes après la révolution by Irene Maffi, Malika Affes

“…In this article, written in the form of an interview, Malika Affes, midwife in charge of one of the family planning units of La Rabta Hospital in Tunis, and Irene Maffi, anthropologist, discuss sexual and reproductive health in Tunisia. …”
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Protocole d’errance d’une forme by Francesca Cozzolino, Coralie Maurin, Kristina Solomoukha

“…This text looks back at the developmental stages of an animated short film that grew out of image-based research into Zapatista iconography, grounded in an ethnographic investigation in Chiapas. Designed by an anthropologist, an artist, and a filmmaker, this audio-visual narrative is built like a virtual trip through different groups of images in which different variants of the caracol are shown—a motif that, ranging from the representation of the snail shell to the spiral, embodies both the Maya past and the Zapatista ideals of the present. …”
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Berta Gleizer Ribeiro e as artes das vidas amazônicas by Lúcia Hussak van Velthem, Bianca Luiza Freire de Castro França, José Ribamar Bessa Freire

“…The reflections that follow focus on the approaches to which the anthropologist paid special attention, such as those connected to the study of everyday objects, to Amazonian aesthetics, to the mythology of the indigenous peoples of the upper Rio Negro, and also to ecological issues. …”
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Islamic Feminism in Morocco: A Generational Comparison Between Fatima Mernissi and Asma Lamrabet by Francesca Neri

“…Using a theoretical framework such as the one proposed by anthropologist Talal Asad regarding Islam’s discursive tradition, it can instead be seen that, rather than a true generational change, what is occurring is a normal evolution of the primary theory attributable to Mernissi. …”
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Sociologia, cultura e arte: um debate entre espaços e tempos by Eliska Altmann

“…Based on the volumes of the Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Velho - Sociologia da arte; Sociologia da arte II; and Arte e sociedade - ensaios de sociologia da arte (1966, 1967 and 1977) - in light of the book A sociologia da arte (2008), of the French sociologist Nathalie Heinich, the article highlights Brazilian publications comprising thinkers of sociology of art and culture through space-time dialogues. …”
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The Last Word by Jan Boessenkool

“… As an organisational anthropologist I was very enthusiastic about the philosophy of the ubuntu concept when I heard and read about it a couple of years ago. …”
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Nouvelles proxémies en Europe ? by Pierre Donadieu

“…It shows that the proxemics principles of spatial distance, highlighted by the American anthropologist E. T. Hall fifty years ago to address the urban space crisis, could be relayed by the idea of landscape geomediation. …”
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De l’incident de terrain à l’écriture de l’évocation by Claire Vionnet

“…Drawing on a fieldwork on contemporary dance, the anthropologist highlights how a phenomenological description of dance can expand choreographers’ questions that might be raised within the dance studio. …”
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O multiverso predatório dos deuses canibais: o legado de Joanna Overing by Els Lagrou, Luisa Elvira Belaunde

“…In this sense, we propose a brief intellectual biography of an American anthropologist born in 1938 who did fieldwork in Venezuela, taught in the United States, England and Scotland, weaved interdisciplinary dialogues between philosophy, linguistics and anthropology and stimulated exchanges between ethnology carried out in England, France, Scandinavia and Brazil. …”
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L’esclave du ms. H.6 et l’anthropologue romancier : In an Antique Land d’Amitav Ghosh, une utopie de l’archive by Claudine Le Blanc

“…H.6") was published by the young anthropologist and novelist Amitav Ghosh Bengali, who published the same year In a Antique land, an account of his fieldwork in Egypt, inspired by the same correspondence. …”
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The Metaphysics of Justice: Ayelala’s Rise in Benin and Other Parts of Edo State by Benson Ohihon Igboin

“…Building on the arguments of the British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, who suggests that witchcraft explains unfortunate events, this article argues that the experience of certain fortunate events, such as the punishment of evildoers or the revelation of metaphysical causes of death, confirm the existence of Ayelala as a counter-force to witchcraft and other forms of metaphysical evil. …”
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Étudier la langue vietnamienne dans l’enseignement supérieur à Paris pendant les années 1990 : démarche réflexive d’un apprentissage dans une conjoncture historique by François Guillemot

“…Based on our course notebooks from the Vietnamese sections at Inalco and Paris 7 between 1989 and 1998, we are attempting, like an anthropologist relying on his notebooks, to trace the contours of a cultural history in progress. …”
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